Re: Significant whitespace (was Re: Blogging sucks)

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From: Abigail
Subject: Re: Significant whitespace (was Re: Blogging sucks)
Date: 00:03 on 14 Oct 2005
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On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 03:35:22PM -0700, Chris Nandor wrote:
> At 17:32 -0500 2005.10.13, Peter da Silva wrote:
> >> Please.  That is not perl.  It is a new language based on perl, called
> >> perl6, where 6 is not a version number but part of the name.
> >
> >That's nothing. The only thing in common betwen smail and smail3 was the
> >five shared letters in the name.
> >
> >I have a hate for people who implement a new program and pretend it's a =
new
> >version of an old one.
>=20
> On this, we agree!
>=20
> Maybe we can lobby Larry to change the name; has anyone tried this yet?


It has been suggested, yes.=20

I think Larry prefers 'perl6' above anything else.



Abigail

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